From 1880 to 1920 two million Jews left their homes in Eastern Europe and established themselves mostly in the urban centers of America, but some Jewish immigrants attempted to build agrarian communities. This book focuses on the attempt of one...

A collection of more than three hundred photographs, line drawings, lithographs, stereoviews, and other images that illustrate the profound influence blacks had on communal and frontier history in the American West.

Traces the history of the sojourn of “Johnston’s Army” in Utah Territory from the beginning of the Utah War in 1857 through the abandonment of Camp Floyd in Cedar Valley at the outbreak of the Civil War.

Written five years after the army chased the Nez Peirce Indians through the area, and only ten years after the park’s establishment, Mary Richards provides a vivid picture of the undeveloped and untouristed Yellowstone Park.

Roy Webb takes the reader back in time to discover what lay along this section of the Green River before the Flaming Gorge Dam was built and provides a historical account of this section of the Colorado River system.

Part fashion spread, part adventure guide, and all Utah cultural treasure, this book is a stunning visual record of six female University of Utah students who explored Zion National Park in 1920 as its first official tourists.

Tells the story of Japanese-American internment during World War II from the perspective of two very different people: the Army colonel in charge of the relocations and a young student who was incarcerated at Tule Lake.

The chronicle of Fray Francisco Atanasio Domínguez's remarkable 1776 expedition through the Rocky Mountains, the eastern Great Basin, and the Colorado Plateau to inventory new lands for the Spanish crown.

Diaries from Powell’s initial reconnaissance of the canyons of the Green and Colorado rivers, an expedition that would prove to be the last great exploration through unknown country in the continental United States.

The story of the thousands of Japanese-Americans who were separated from their property, livelihoods, and constitutional rights, and shipped to a windswept stretch of Utah's roughest rangeland during World War II.

Offers a powerful perspective on the American Indian tribes of the Great Basin region now known as Utah. Produced in collaboration with the five principle nations of the Great Basin: the Ute, Paiute, Northwestern Shoshone, Goshute, and Navajo...

A look at the personal experiences of the Woman Air Force Service Pilots (WASPs), recounting the adventures of one of eighteen classes of women to graduate from the Army Air Forces' flight training school during World War II.

This volume fills a gap in existing histories of the canyon country of southeastern Utah and northern Arizona by focusing on early historical themes from the confrontation between Euro-Christian ideals and the challenging landscape.

Utah / Western History

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